DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution

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Post by gabe_monroy » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:18 PM UTC

DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
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Post by adoxyz » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:24 PM UTC

Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!

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Post by pabl0rg » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

I’ve been looking forward to this since the nimbella acq, but now I feel betrayed by the new pricing and probably won’t even try it.

Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution

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Post by killingtime74 » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:34 PM UTC

adoxyz wrote: post #2

Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!

"Memory is limited from 128 MB - 1 MB, defaulting to 256 MB", do you mean 1GB?

5 second max function duration? Cloudflare is unlimited and AWS is 15 minutes.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/details/lim...

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Post by pigtailgirl » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:38 PM UTC

-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --

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Post by JohnHaugeland » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:39 PM UTC

Why would anyone tie themselves to digital ocean

Single infrastructure code dies and the author can't usually save it

Ask a heroku fan how they're feeling right now before moving forward with any single host approach

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Post by erikrothoff » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

pigtailgirl wrote: post #5

-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --

Looking at their ever increasing pricing, no, I wouldn't say so. Linode is so far staying true to their promise of individual developer focused cloud.

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Post by bcjordan » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:46 PM UTC

How long are cold starts with these functions?

How long does it take to deploy an update? Are updates rolling/zero-downtime?

Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution

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Post by abdouls » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:46 PM UTC

pigtailgirl wrote: post #5

-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --

Yeah, seems like they changed a lot recently (since they're on NYSE). I feel like they are transitioning away from the "for developers" cloud, to more like a "to be" Heorku or AWS/Azure/GCP cloud.

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Post by MattIPv4 » Tue, May 24, 2022, 12:48 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #4

adoxyz wrote: post #2

Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!

"Memory is limited from 128 MB - 1 MB, defaulting to 256 MB", do you mean 1GB? 5 second max function duration? Cloudflare is unlimited and AWS is 15 minutes. https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/details/lim...

That should indeed read 1GB, good catch! Will get that fixed up.